Archive for category Social Media

Android Apps I Just Couldn’t Live Without

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that I’m using my mobile phone (HTC Hero, if you care) more for surfing the internet than I do for making calls and sending texts. This is either representative of a shift in the way people use the internet, or just conclusive proof that I don’t have many friends.

Either way, the first thing you notice as a mobile phone surfer is that you want to spend as little time as possible using the handset’s web browser. Sites have absolutely terrible mobile versions, and the browser refuses to run in the background.

If you’re going to use the internet on the move, you’ll need Apps. So here are the Android Apps I just couldn’t live without.

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New Years Resolutions for 2010

Photo by dcJohn

Photo by dcJohn

Well, New Year’s finally here, and with but a few hours left of this decade, I’d like to take this opportunity to announce my New Year’s Resolutions. Please feel free to disregard them, as they’ll inevitably be abandoned by the time my hangover clears some time next year.

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Five Wildly Inaccurate Social Media Predictions for 2010

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Photo by MrMatze77

The end of a year can’t just be a time for retrospection and reflection. It should also be a time for wild speculation and crystal-ball gazing. Luckily, like Cassandra before me, I have been cursed with the gift of being able to see into the future with 100% accuracy.

So fire up your stock portfolio, get down to the bookies, or just prepare to tell all your friends that “I told you so!” It’s time for five completely accurate Social Media predictions for 2010!

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ReTweeting – A Handy Guide (for the benefit of Lisa Barone)

Given that Lisa Barone’s doom-laden hyperbole has spread through Twitter faster than a case of the clap, you may well have read that Twitter’s New ReTweet Feature Sucks.

Apparently, the new RT button (that you don’t have to use and have survived without for the past year or so) is the harbinger of the apocalypse. That’s right. War, Death, Famine and Poor ReTweet Functionality are upon us, and the end of days is here.
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